need parallel execution When executing an Azure Pipeline [error]No hosted parallelism has been purchased or granted. Filled the free parallelism grant, at https://aka.ms/azpipelines-

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Need parallel execution When executing an Azure Pipeline [error]No hosted parallelism has been purchased or granted. Filled the free parallelism grant, at https://aka.ms/azpipelines but the access has not been given

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Hi @Muhd Azril ,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform! Thank you for asking your question here.

Please find the quote from Azure DevOps document below.

The free grant of parallel jobs for public projects and for certain private projects in new organizations is temporarily disabled. However, you can request this grant by submitting a request. Existing organizations and projects aren't affected. It can take several business days to process your free tier requests. During certain time periods, processing times might be longer.

To check if Free grant is provisioned or not. Please check below.

• Browse to Organization settings > Pipelines > Parallel jobs.
  
• View the maximum number of parallel jobs that are available in your organization.
• For project

  		Number of parallel jobs	Time limit
  	Public project	Up to 10 free Microsoft-hosted parallel jobs that can run for up to 360 minutes (6 hours) each time	No overall time limit per month
  	Private project	One free job that can run for up to 60 minutes each time	1,800 minutes (30 hours) per month

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/licensing/concurrent-jobs?view=azure-devops&tabs=ms-hosted#check-the-parallel-jobs-setting-directly

Workarounds

1. Short-term unblock - use a self-hosted agent
   • If you need to run pipelines immediately, set up a self-hosted agent (runs on your own VM/machine). Self-hosted agents let you run jobs without waiting for the Microsoft-hosted parallelism grant.
   • Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/agents?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml%2Cbrowser#self-hosted-agents
2. If you prefer Microsoft-hosted and need guaranteed parallelism now: buy parallel jobs
   • You can purchase additional Microsoft-hosted parallel jobs from Organization settings → Parallel jobs → Purchase parallel jobs. The docs show the exact steps to change or buy parallel jobs.
   • Reference:
   • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/licensing/concurrent-jobs?view=azure-devops&tabs=ms-hosted#how-do-i-buy-more-parallel-jobs
   • https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azure-devops-services/